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5901. Zweig MS 12

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 12
Title:
Letter from Ludwig van Beethoven to Dr. Johann Bihler
Scope & Content:
[Baden, Summer, 1813]. Written in ink, addressed ‘Hr. von Bihler’ on the verso. An irregularly trimmed leaf, with bottom right hand corner, which presumably carried Beethoven’s signature, cut away.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1813
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

5902. Zweig MS 12-13

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 12-13
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Letters to Dr. Johann Bihler; [1813, 1817]
Scope & Content:
Autograph. These letters consist of very brief notes, the first simply of greeting, the second giving Bihler the address in Vienna at which he might visit ‘this poor, persecuted and despised Austrian musical drudge’.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1813-1817
Extent:
2 volumes

5903. Zweig MS 13

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 13
Title:
Letter from Ludwig van Beethoven to Dr. Johann Bihler
Scope & Content:
[Vienna, probably mid-April, 1817]. Written in pencil, addressed in ink on the verso ‘Hr. Dr. Von Bihler’.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
Apr 1817
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

5904. Zweig MS 14

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 14
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Memorandum book
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink and pencil. The entries on ff. 1r-2r comprise accounts of expenses on the journey from Bonn to Vienna, [1792]; the remainder is taken up with memoranda and accounts entered in Vienna. The first entries on f. 1r and another on f. 2r are not in Beethoven’s hand. A number ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1792-1794]
Extent:
1 volume (27 folios)

5905. Zweig MS 15

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 15
Title:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Copies by Beethoven of the text of five poems from ‘Morgenländische Blumenlese’ by Johann Gottfried Herder, with brief observations on nature by Beethoven
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink and pencil. The leaves have been folded twice, marking out two or four compartments to which Beethoven has restricted his notes on the last page. Contents as follows: f. 1r, Herder: ‘Die laute Klage’. With indications of metre added in pencil above the text. Published...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1815?]
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

5906. Zweig MS 17

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 17
Title:
Alban Berg: ‘Lulu’, opera in three acts (libretto, the composer after Frank Wedekind), 1929-1935: Prologue, written out for presentation to Arnold Schoenberg, to whom the work is dedicated, on his 60th birthday
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink, with bar lines in pencil, on systems of up to 24 staves. Marked ‘Attacca [crochet] = 80-90’ (f. 3r). The Prologue, consisting of the opera’s first 85 bars, occupies ff. 3r-10v; f. 11r has the next four bars, after the rise of the curtain, in score in pencil,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1934]
Extent:
1 volume (12 folios)

5907. Zweig MS 19

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 19
Title:
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto no. 2 in B flat, op. 83, 1881: reduction of tutti passages from movements II, III and IV, for the published solo piano score (issued July 1882)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on systems of two staves on both sides of a single leaf. The passages concerned are, on the recto: movement II, bars 200-203, apparently the conclusion of a passage begun on another leaf; movement III, bars 1-22; movement IV, bars 39-47; and on the verso:- movement IV, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1882]
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

5908. Zweig MS 20

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 20
Title:
Johannes Brahms: ‘Zigeunerlieder’, for four voices and piano (words translated from Hungarian folk-songs by Hugo Conrat), op. 103
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in black ink, with frequent corrections, on systems of up to six staves. With additional annotations by the composer in pencil and blue crayon, mostly intended for the copyist. The songs are unnumbered, the order in which they are written, relative to the numbers in the ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1888]
Extent:
1 volume (12 folios)

5909. Zweig MS 21

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 21
Title:
Johannes Brahms: Canon for four voices ‘Ans Auge des Liebsten’ (words Friedrich Rückert), op. 113, no. 9: on an album leaf
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in black ink. Headed ‘à 4’ and signed at foot ‘Wien, Jan: 1873. Joh[anne]s Brahms’. In C; the two parts together on a single line preceded by bass and tenor clefs. The date of composition of this work is not known.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1873
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

5910. Zweig MS 22

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 22
Title:
Johannes Brahms: Letter to Peter Joseph Simrock
Scope & Content:
No place; dated ‘Juli 61’ (f. 1r). Numbers ‘524/1’ and ‘913’ added in pencil on f. 1r appear to be by dealers or previous owners.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
Jul 1861
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

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